From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 4 September 2009
Stats: 428 views and 12 Comments I'm inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently. Orwell, a man of the "left," could not remain silent in the face ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 4 September 2009
Stats: 428 views and 12 Comments I'm inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently. Orwell, a man of the "left," could not remain silent in the face ...
Sotomayor, Freedom, and the Law
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 17 July 2009
Stats: 121 views and 27 Comments The dreary Senate hearing on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court left me so in the doldrums that my only chance for solace was to dig out my copy of Freedom and the Law (1961) by Bruno Leoni. Leoni (1913-1967) was a professor ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 17 July 2009
Stats: 121 views and 27 Comments The dreary Senate hearing on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court left me so in the doldrums that my only chance for solace was to dig out my copy of Freedom and the Law (1961) by Bruno Leoni. Leoni (1913-1967) was a professor ...
Inflation as Income Distribution
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 January 2009
Stats: 1,479 views and 25 Comments Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and "In brief," and author of "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into "the economy." Much of that money has been sent to Wall Street to ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 January 2009
Stats: 1,479 views and 25 Comments Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and "In brief," and author of "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into "the economy." Much of that money has been sent to Wall Street to ...
